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Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM)

Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) · Production · U.S. Navy

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Program totals · 1

  • Annual RDT&E fundingRAM. Annual research, development, test and evaluation funding in the March 2024 budget presentation; FY2024 and FY2025 are request figures. Not a lifetime R&D total or actual expenditure.
    FY2025 Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System DoD Comptroller · Mar 2024 · figure FY2025 · FY2025 budget book
    $19.2M / yrNominal $; source budget basis

Unit costs · 1

  • New-round hardware + canister · derivedSum of six P-5 per-unit lines for the same 148 new rounds: guidance/control $599,090.70; propulsion $84,268.12; safe/arm $6,782.65; ordnance package $53,626.67; warhead $25,317.52; canister $60,409.32. Excludes modifications, support and other program work. Rounded to dollars.
    FY2025 Navy procurement budget, line 2242: Rolling Airframe Missile U.S. Navy · government budget document mirror · Mar 2024 · figure FY2025 request
    $829,495Nominal $; source budget basis

Quantities · 2

  • New-round requestNew rounds; the funding also covers four Block 1-to-2B and 70 Block 2-to-2A modifications.
    Navy
    FY2025 Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System DoD Comptroller · Mar 2024 · figure FY2025
    148U.S. only; stated source scope
  • U.S. inventoryA current U.S. inventory was not established. Annual procurement, cumulative deliveries and production capacity are not a stockpile count.
    Source not recorded
    Not established

Operating costs · 1

  • Annual operations & supportA complete, system-specific annual operating and support cost was not established. Procurement, replacement rounds and contract support are different measures.
    Source not recorded
    Not established
Earlier observations · 7

Superseded estimates and prices, each in its original scope and dollar basis.

Program totals · 6

Unit costs · 1

  • New-round hardware + canister · derivedSum of six P-5 per-unit lines for the same 148 new rounds: guidance/control $599,090.70; propulsion $84,268.12; safe/arm $6,782.65; ordnance package $53,626.67; warhead $25,317.52; canister $60,409.32. Excludes modifications, support and other program work. Rounded to dollars.
    FY2025 Navy procurement budget, line 2242: Rolling Airframe Missile U.S. Navy · government budget document mirror · Mar 2024 · figure FY2025 request
    $829,495Nominal $; source budget basis

1RAM. Annual research, development, test and evaluation funding in the March 2024 budget presentation; FY2024 and FY2025 are request figures. Not a lifetime R&D total or actual expenditure.

2Includes the program procurement scope. FY2024 and FY2025 are request figures; modifications make this unsuitable as a bare-round cost.

New production and modifications share funding

The FY2025 procurement amount includes modification work in addition to 148 new rounds. It is not divided by that new-round count to claim a hardware unit price.

FY2025 Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System DoD Comptroller · Mar 2024

Use the new-round components, not the whole program total

Each of the six included hardware and canister lines shares a 148-round denominator. The separate modification quantities and support lines are excluded from this derived estimate.

FY2025 Navy procurement budget, line 2242: Rolling Airframe Missile U.S. Navy · government budget document mirror · Mar 2024

Open research: Current U.S. inventory and complete annual operating-and-support costs require additional public evidence. Buyer records are selected examples, not a complete global order book.

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